Eastern German legislature elects mainstream conservative speaker after far-right election win

BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers elected a mainstream conservative as speaker of the state parliament in eastern Germany's Thuringia region on Saturday, putting aside a convention that the strongest party gets the job after the far-right Alternative for Germany won a regional election for the first time....

Brewing a cold beer on a warming planet is hard. Germany uses education to fight climate change

MUNICH (AP) — The keys to combating the climate change that's wreaking havoc on Germany's beer industry could lie inside a plant nursery — nicknamed "our kindergarten" — at the Society of Hop Research north of Munich. The 7,000 seedlings there are a mix of new varieties that...

The leaders of Germany's Greens are quitting after several election defeats

BERLIN (AP) — The leaders of Germany's Greens, one of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's troubled coalition government, announced Wednesday that they will step down after the latest in a string of disappointing election results. The environmentalist party's support declined...

Biden is making his long-awaited visit to Africa in October. He'll stop in Germany, then Angola

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will make his long-awaited visit to Africa when he travels to Germany and Angola in mid-October, the White House announced Tuesday. Biden had promised during a summit of African leaders he hosted in Washington in late 2022 to visit Africa the...

German police will increase the number of bodyguards for leading politicians

BERLIN (AP) — A German police office that provides security for leading politicians says it plans to increase the number of bodyguards significantly over the coming years, citing growing dangers at home and abroad as the next national election nears. The head of the Federal...

Scholz's party dismisses questions about German leader's election candidacy

BERLIN (AP) — The leadership of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party on Monday sought to squash questions about his candidacy in next year's national election after narrowly beating the far right in a regional vote. Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats beat the far-right Alternative...

Scholz's Social Democrats hold back the far right in German state vote

POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — The Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg on Sunday, gaining a narrow edge over a growing far-right party, according to the vote count. The vote took place three weeks after the far right made gains in two...

German opposition Christian Democrats tap leader Friedrich Merz as their candidate for chancellor

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's opposition center-right Christian Democratic Union announced Tuesday that it has chosen its leader, Friedrich Merz, to be its candidate for chancellor in next year's national election. The decision sets the stage for a possible challenge of Chancellor Olaf...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union taps Friedrich Merz as its candidate for chancellor in next national election

Germany begins conducting checks at all its land borders

KEHL, Germany (AP) — Germany on Monday began random checks at its borders with five Western European nations as it seeks to crack down on irregular migration, expanding a system of mobile border controls that are already in place at four other borders. The checks began at the...